We know that the mystical and expansive experiences we’ve read about or had ourselves are in some deep way true—truer than parking tickets and emails and ready meals. But the core wisdom of modernity—the whole drive behind the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution’s insistence on empirical evidence—is that once you open that door to the... See more

A century ago, the philosopher Simone Weil admonished against this fragmentation of the problem of reality into parochial questions addressed by disjointed scientific disciplines — “villages” of thought, she called them — each too blinded by its own axioms to make headway on illuminating the whole. “The villagers seldom leave the village,” she wrot... See more

“Medical science relies heavily on the power of scrutiny. And if something cannot be perceived or measured, it will live forever outside of any medical model of healthspan and longevity. In fact, the business of science relies so heavily on perception and measurement, that if something is real, yet cannot be perceived or measured, it is often... See more